Why Can’t I Get What I Want? by Yasmin Mogahed

Part of the problems really goes back to the idea of what exactly is our goal/what we are trying to achieve. Why we are trapped in these questions is that we have mixed or switched our means and our end/goals. End/goals is what we want to achieve/our destination, while our means it the tools we use to get there. And the problem in us, is that we believe in Allah, we love Allah, but Allah is not our end/ultimate goal. Rather, we have other goals/ends that have to do with other than Allah. Although those goals are halal, but nothing else other than Allah should be our goals. Those other goals should only be our means.

And what worse is that we often use Allah as a tools/means to get our other goals T_T